Senators voted against a bill that would limit funds given to Student Government officials for meals and cell phone bills during Tuesday's meeting.
Editor's note: Kat Bein followed a group of humans around this weekend and wrote about her experiences.
And so, dear readers, here we are. Another summer in Gainesville has come and gone, and it's time we all look back and reflect on how much we've gone through. There's been plenty of things to remember over this past pseudo-semester, like that time ... where ... um ...
About 1,400 undergraduate students plan to attend the graduation ceremony Saturday, according to Donna Stricker, director of the commencement.
Liz woke up one morning to a voicemail on her phone.
He steps up to the microphone – eyes shut, sweat streaming down his face and guitar — as the raspy sound of his voice cuts through the twangy, bluegrass sound of his band.
The Gators open up their preseason training camp today, and that can only mean one thing around these parts: UF fans already have their eyes on a trip to Glendale, Ariz., in January.
Freedom is an addictive thing, isn’t it? Each time we get a little bit more freedom to do anything, regardless of the positive or negative impacts, we cling to it like a mother clinging to her newly born baby. It is our baby. It is our everything. But why is this so? Why do we find it so difficult to let go of any kind of freedom? I would put my hard-earned Monopoly money on the reason being a human tendency, to grasp onto anything that enables us to express ourselves. Since expression can be quasi-defined as life, the opportunity to live to one’s fullest potential, which I believe is infinite, can be equated as freedom.
This long, hot and boring summer is finally coming to a close, and after all the dreadfully boring news that came out in the past few months, we think it should have come a lot sooner.
In Tuesday’s Alligator, the Editorial Board took a strong stance in favor of adding more Gainesville utility providers, finally bringing the free market to our power and water and working to stop the city-controlled socialists at GRU. Frankly, I couldn’t agree more.
We have about 80 years to live, and about one-third of that we spend unconscious. And I don’t mean because of an accumulation of hard nights at Midtown. Throw in work, education, eating, daily household and personal hygiene chores, and the roughly five years everyone spends in a line of some sort just waiting for something like a red light to turn green.
The Gator spirit of the UF Cicerones is no force to reckon with.
Gainesville Mayor Craig Lowe hasn’t wasted any time coming out in protest of Dove World Outreach Center’s plans for a Quran burning on Sept. 11.
Even though riding around on a little metal frame with two wheels can seem foolish and a bit dangerous, it doesn't have to be.
After a weekend of heinous heavy lifting, vacuuming, organizing and more heavy lifting, I found myself questioning how I was still alive Sunday night during my weekly date with HBO. I'm sure many of you have or will find yourselves asking that same question during this moving season.
Alabama finished last season atop the college football world, and that’s exactly where it begins this season, coming in as the unanimous No. 1 in the alligatorSports’ preseason college football poll.
With two-a-day practices and the start of another grueling season on the horizon, the Gators took some time to have fun and give back to the community.
The Southeastern Conference just got tougher and deeper.
If the gorgeous facilities weren’t enough, the Florida lacrosse program just gained some additional street cred.
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